On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:35:55AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > It would be better called a "rule chain" or some such to be similar to
> > firewall rules, than an ACL, but ACL is what Phil has chosen, so ACL it
> > is. However, I think calling it a "chain" in the sense above makes it
> > more obvious what is going on.
> We discussed nomenclature at the time, and (IIRC) the conclusion was
> that "ACL" is something that would be widely understood. But of course,
> you can never actually name anything correctly. :-)
Sure. Different people think in different ways, and I don't necessarily
think you're wrong for calling it an ACL, however, some, like myself, who
have some experience writing firewall rulesets might think of the "ACL"s
in exim as more like a firewall ruleset or rule-chain. This was more my
point, to the original poster who was asking about ordering.
I haven't got to that bit in the Exim 4 spec, and I haven't got round to
converting yet (though I see you included the dsearch lookup, which means
I no longer have to patch exim to have that functionality. :-)
MBM (did have a plan for converting to Exim 4 on his home machine, but it
went sadly wrong....)
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Matthew Byng-Maddick <mbm@???> http://colondot.net/
